Pluralistic: Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat (20 Feb 2025)

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Ad-tech targeting is an existential threat: Targeting people with chronic illnesses, parents of sick kids, military personnel with gambling problems, seniors with dementia, and national security decisionmakers.
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Pluralistic: Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump (15 Feb 2025)

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Skinnamarinkstump Linkdump: Mostly lighthearted links from the road.
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Pluralistic: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?) (19 Nov 2024)

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Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?): Structural separation is the ultimate anti-cheat hack.
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Pluralistic: Google's new phones can't stop phoning home (08 Oct 2024)

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Google's new phones can't stop phoning home: The call is coming from inside the house.
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Pluralistic: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy (20 Sep 2024)

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Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy: The FTC shows that privacy is a competition issue.
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Pluralistic: The paradox of choice screens (12 Aug 2024)

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The paradox of choice screens: What does a post-Google world look like?
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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)

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The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it: "People like relevant ads" is a lie, and "attribution" is an abomination.
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Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)

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Unpersoned: My latest Locus Magazine column.
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Pluralistic: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good (15 May 2024)

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Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good: It's just too goddamned easy to cheat.
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Pluralistic: AI is a WMD (09 May 2024)

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AI is a WMD: Advon is a force-multiplier for enshittification.
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